Presidential Personality and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Sunshine Policy under Kim Dae-jung (1998–2003)

IF 1.4 4区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Pacific Affairs Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.5509/2023962493

Shin Yon Kim

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Abstract

This study uses leadership trait analysis to examine the link between personality and policy regarding South Korea's Sunshine Policy toward North Korea and demonstrates that Kim Dae-jung's personality characteristics largely accounted for this policy's content, process, and outcome. With an analytical focus on the decision-making system, this study finds that Kim's formal model was characterized by a control deemed inherently more indirect, subtle, and socialized than direct, personalized, or outright. Specifically, this type of control can be attributed to Kim's personality traits, such as a persistently high need for power and relationship focus, along with other idiosyncratic style variables, such as disinclination toward interpersonal conflict, a sense of efficacy, and a sophisticated cognitive quality. President Kim's resulting management style had the e ect of empowering members of his advisory group and invigorating the policy process. In addition, the president's trusted chief of staff, who served as a competent and thoughtful custodian manager with substantial authority, helped manage the system effectively and enhanced its stability. The study concludes that Kim Dae- jung's management style, incorporating socialized control over decision- making, combined with his advocate leadership style in implementation (marked by a relentless push for his rapprochement agenda and a tendency to challenge constraints indirectly), helped accelerate the overall policy process. This contributed to the improvement of inter-Korean relations during his presidency.

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总统人格与外交决策：金大中的阳光政策（1998-2003）

本研究运用领导特质分析法考察了韩国阳光对朝政策的个性与政策之间的联系，并表明金大中的个性特征在很大程度上解释了该政策的内容、过程和结果。本研究将分析重点放在决策系统上，发现金的正式模型的特点是控制本质上比直接、个性化或直接更为间接、微妙和社会化。具体来说，这种类型的控制可以归因于金的性格特征，比如对权力和关系关注的持续高度需求，以及其他特质风格变量，比如不喜欢人际冲突、效能感和复杂的认知品质。金总统由此产生的管理风格具有赋予其咨询小组成员权力和振兴政策进程的效果。此外，总统信任的幕僚长是一位有能力、有思想、有实权的托管经理，他帮助有效管理了该系统，增强了系统的稳定性。研究得出的结论是，金大中的管理风格，包括对决策的社会化控制，加上他在执行中倡导的领导风格（其特点是坚持不懈地推动他的和解议程，并倾向于间接挑战限制），有助于加快整个政策进程。这有助于在他担任总统期间改善朝韩关系。

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期刊介绍： Pacific Affairs has, over the years, celebrated and fostered a community of scholars and people active in the life of Asia and the Pacific. It has published scholarly articles of contemporary significance on Asia and the Pacific since 1928. Its initial incarnation from 1926 to 1928 was as a newsletter for the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), but since May 1928, it has been published continuously as a quarterly under the same name. The IPR was a collaborative organization established in 1925 by leaders from several YMCA branches in the Asia Pacific, to “study the conditions of the Pacific people with a view to the improvement of their mutual relations.”